Delete all documents from index/type without deleting type

Question

I know one can delete all documents from a certain type via deleteByQuery.

Example:

curl -XDELETE \'http://localhost:9200/twitter/tweet/_query\' -d \         


        

Answer 1

The Delete-By-Query plugin has been removed in favor of a new Delete By Query API implementation in core. Read here

curl -XPOST 'localhost:9200/twitter/tweet/_delete_by_query?conflicts=proceed&pretty' -d'
{
    "query": {
        "match_all": {}
    }
}'